The flying saucer

Sixty years ago, a football match was stopped when an unidentified flying object (UFO or flying saucer) was found floating on a stadium in Florence. Even then and until now, people still wonder if alien creatures have visited Earth? If not, what is that strange object?

It was October 27, 1954, a clear blue autumn day in Tuscany. The powerful Fiorentina club then had a match against rival Pistoiese.

"I think it's a flying saucer."

Tens of thousands of fans watched the fiery match at Artemi Franchi stadium. But right after the second half started not long ago, the stadium suddenly became terribly silent, before exploding with all kinds of disturbing sounds. The audience no longer watches the ball. They competed to look up at the sky, competing with each other only. The players also stopped and the ball no longer rolled on the field.

A sample of "angel hair" obtained in 1954, was kept for photographing, serving newspaper publishing

One of the players present was Ardico Magnini - he was a club legend and played for Italy at the World Cup 1954. "I still remember printing everything" - he said - "It feels like when he saw an egg moving slowly, slowly, everyone looked up and they saw a glistening light of silver, shining down from the sky. Something like that before. We were shocked. "

Another witness was Gigi Boni, a longtime Fiorentina fan, who said he had seen more than one strange object: "I still remember seeing that amazing image. Strange objects moved with speed. "It's very fast and it's just a few minutes. The objects look like Cuban cigars. I think it's a flying saucer from another planet." The former Romolo Tuci player, now in his 70s, agrees: "In those years, everyone talked about flying saucers, aliens. We saw them (flying saucers) directly, in real life".

Dazzling light and "angelic hair"

It is hard to say that the event at the Artemi Franchi stadium is just a result of collective hysteria. In addition to the fans in the stadium, many people throughout Tuscany also see "flying saucers" that day and the following days. Some even see "flying saucers" that emit dazzling light in the sky.

A man who had the opportunity to witness and recounted the day was Roberto Pinotti, President of the Center for the Unknown National Flying Object of Italy."At that time, the newspapers all talked about aliens coming from Mars. Obviously we know that that's not the case. But we conclude it is an extremely unusual phenomenon that we don't know yet." - he said.

Those present on the Artemi Franchi stadium believe that a flying saucer has appeared.

Pinotti said in addition to mysterious appearances in the sky, flying saucers have "dropped" below the ground a sticky substance and a mysterious white color. The Italians then called this mysterious material "angel hair" . Interestingly, "angel hair" dissipates very quickly in a short time, like melting snow.

There were a few people who sought to clarify this mysterious material. One of them is the late Nazi journalist Giorgio Batini. He picked up a white "angelic hair" on a forest block outside Florence and took them to the Chemical Analysis Institute at Florence University. When he arrived, he saw many other people doing the same thing.

The Institute's research room, under the leadership of renowned professor Giovanni Canneri, conducted spectral analysis and found that it contained boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium. Unfortunately, people do not have a clear answer to this physical origin before it disappears.

Just migrating spiders?

Is this mysterious material coming from a flying saucer?"It's a completely stupid idea. Science completely rejects this idea," former US pilot James McGaha told the BBC. According to him, the phenomenon of flying saucers is nothing but a combination of legend, superstition and the belief that one day aliens will come to save or kill us.

He judged all that happened as a result of the migration of . spiders."When researching this case, I initially thought the flying saucer was a fire ball, formed when an asteroid caught fire and broke off as it entered the atmosphere. The fire ball could carry a cigar shape with the pieces. "But then I saw that the phenomenon was formed from very thin spider webs and rotated in the air" - he said.

According to McGaha, spiders use their spider webs like a small sail to fly in the air. When migrating, they often connect multiple webs together and the final product will be a large network, easily blown by the wind. The spiders were following these large webs to move quickly.

He said that when large spider webs move in the air at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, they will reflect the sun down and create special visual effects, like flying saucers appear. He also said that some spider webs then fell down, forming "angelic hair" as people thought.

McGaha's hypothesis has a real weight: spiders in the northern hemisphere often migrate between September and October each year. Today, it is known that spiders do this big migration.

But the witnesses in Italy still do not want to believe the "flying saucer" they see is just spider web. "Obviously I know about the hypothesis that spiders migrate, but that is completely absurd, " Pinotti said, adding that he did not believe the hypothesis of migrating spiders due to chemical analysis results "natural hair God". According to him, spider silk is a protein - an organic compound containing nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen and oxygen. However, these components were not found in the "angelic hair" sample that Batini and others brought to the institute.

And so, what happened that day is still a mystery. No matter what the scientists say, the Italians who witnessed the event believe they have seen the flying saucer firsthand, or at least a mysterious phenomenon without an answer.